Rast Within Inches of Podium at Paris-Roubaix

Beautiful blue skies, unseasonably warm shirt-sleeve temperatures, knowledge crowds thickly lining the roads, hard to see how it could get much better for the 109th running of the 258-kilometer (160 mile) Hell of the North. It?s been named that mostly because of the 27 cobbled sectors (51.5 kms) that the riders bounce over on bumpy [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/rast-within-inches-of-podium-at-paris-roubaix/

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Vuelta al Pais Vasco, Stage 1, Zumarraga to Zumarraga

The last few kilometres were all that I managed to see of today?s stage 1 of the Pais Vasco and coverage was intermittent even then as the cameras cut back to the finish line rather than following all the action. But when the focus was on the riders what a stage this was. Let?s be [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/vuelta-al-pais-vasco-stage-1-zumarraga-to-zumarraga/

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How to Make a Bicycle Touring Video

Adventure Cycling?s first annual Bicycle Travel Video Contest is now open, organized in conjunction with World Cycle Videos. Between now and the submission deadline on February 28, 2013, we?ll feature guest blog posts from our volunteer judges with insights and tips for creating inspiring bicycle-travel videos. The following is a guest post by Friedel Grant.



Making videos of our bike touring adventures has never come naturally to me. I can often be found muttering to myself, wondering what that button does or how best to combine those two clips.

At the end of the day, however, I'm always satisfied to complete a film about our cycling adventures. A video captures the sounds, movements and emotions of a trip in a much more lively, engaging way than a photograph. It is a living memory.

Just listen to me screaming in this little film as I wade barefoot across a river, looking for a good place to cross with our bicycles. My voice instantly gives away just how chilly the water was, in a way a photograph never could.


 Memories like the ones captured in that video are the reason why I encourage you to make a film of your next bike touring adventure, even if you're not a natural film maker. With a little thought and patience, you can record some priceless moments.

Here are a few tips from this amateur film maker:

#1. Tell A Story -- Instead of trying to capture absolutely everything, find a theme that you'd like to focus on. Is it the fabulous regional food? Or perhaps the experience of cycling in a foreign land? Once you have a theme, start making a list of the types of things you'd like to film. This will help focus your efforts and make it easier to edit your raw clips into an interesting finished video that flows nicely from one scene to the next.

#2. Invest In A Microphone -- The most atmospheric clips make good use of sound and an external microphone will help you record it properly, whether you're trying to share the sound of crickets chirping around your tent at night or talk over a raging rainstorm. External microphones that clip onto your clothing are quite cheap, so invest in one. If that's not an option, make two recordings. In the first one, you can hold the camera close to the source of the sound and record only the sound. Don't worry about the image. In the second, you can film the surrounding scenery. Use your editing program to combine the good audio track with the best images.

#3. Aim High, Low, Near and Far -- As you film, take a variety of shots. Don't just film the field full of sunflowers. Zoom in on the petals and leaves. Tip your camera up to capture the plants against the blue sky and crouch down to get a road-level view of your cycling companions pedalling past. These varied angles are much more interesting than the same eye-level view over and over. Before I let you go, here's one more video that I really enjoy. Technically it's far from perfect, but it does tell a great story! 



Photo courtesy of Friedel Grant


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FRIEDEL GRANT launched into bike touring with a tour around the world with her husband. They pedaled 48,000 km through 30 countries before settling down to ride bikes in The Netherlands. Friedel writes about bike touring on her website, Travelling Two, has published the Bike Touring Survival Guide and written a chapter for the Adventure Cycle-Touring Handbook.

Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2012/11/how-to-make-bicycle-touring-video.html

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The Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders), Sunday April 3, 2011

Warning: Cycle Crazy Week Ahead! A high of 13 degrees Celsius with showers in the morning becoming cloudy in the afternoon. That’s the forecast for Sunday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) on the ProTour circuit. One of the five so called “monuments” in the sport, this 95th edition of the race will see many [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/the-ronde-van-vlaanderen-tour-of-flanders-sunday-april-3-2011/

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Have you ever had any of these thoughts while riding your bike?

I’d be riding my bike and these thoughts would be running through my head: “I really need to adjust my brakes, I’m pulling them far back and its taking too long for my bike to come to a stop” “I’d love to replace my front tyre, I wonder whether it is too worn to ride [...]

The post Have you ever had any of these thoughts while riding your bike? appeared first on London Cyclist Blog.

Source: http://www.londoncyclist.co.uk/have-you-ever-had-any-of-these-thoughts-while-riding-your-bike/

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Fibre Flare bike light review

The Fibre Flare is a bike light with a difference. For a start, it looks like one of those glow sticks you snap in half in a nightclub. This was also the first thing I was tempted to do, and according to the manufacturer you can safely bend it up to 45 degrees. In fact [...]

The post Fibre Flare bike light review appeared first on London Cyclist Blog.

Source: http://www.londoncyclist.co.uk/fibre-flare-bike-light-review/

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Tweaking the Pacific Coast Route

This past spring we received an online map correction card from the Orange County Bicycle Coalition in California. They were offering suggestions for tweaking the Pacific Coast Bicycle Route: "North or Southbound in Southern California we have established "safe passage" routes through the towns of Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, and Dana Point. Please consider these "alt routes" for rider safety."

We love using local and from-the-road feedback to improve our routes and will look into making these changes the next time that map section Pacific Coast #5 is reprinted.

In the meantime, you can take advantage of these alternates routes via their well done Alt Routes on PCH web page. They have maps and turn by turn instructions for both directions.

Give them a look and let us know what you think.

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GEOPOINTS BULLETIN is written by Jennifer 'Jenn' Milyko, an Adventure Cycling cartographer, and appears weekly, highlighting curious facts, figures, and persons from Adventure Cycling's Route Network with tips and hints for personal route creation thrown in for good measure. She also wants to remind you that map corrections and comments are always welcome via the online Map Correction Form.

Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2012/10/tweaking-pacific-coast-route.html

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Levi Comments: Radioshack?s Leader in Tour de France

There has been plenty of speculation in the media and among fans regarding which Team Radioshack rider will lead the team in it’s efforts in the upcoming Tour de France. Even though Lance Armstrong is no longer riding professionally, the team still have several profiles who would fit the bill. In an recent poll on [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/levi-comments-radioshacks-leader-in-tour-de-france/

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